Quotes About Discovery

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Creio que o importante dos escritores são seus livros. Melhor lê-los do que conhecê-los, muitas vezes, porque quando se descobrem coisas como essa, nota-se um desencontro entre a pessoa e a obra.

Y cuando uno resulta ser el cliché del otro, el lugar común del otro, queridos lectores, está a punto de caer y seguir cayendo. Para usar otra idea manoseada hasta sacarle brillo: cuando alguien descubre que siempre prefiere pensar y llamar y oír a una misma persona, y que ha encontrado a alguien para desempolvar las historias que había dejado de contar y que su vida ha vuelto a ser un drama, está a punto de regresar a la zona de turbulencia

Vaya usted a saber quién soy yo.

Hi Haley. look, I found all these free swords. They were in my spleen.

You'll find your way.

There's something beyond all this. We see hints in books and music.

The search for truth is eternal and artists some of its most ardent seekers.

Betus hom qu invenit sapientiam. (Proverbs 3.13: betus hom, sc. est.)

There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.

You find what you look for, my boy." "What is that supposed to mean?" "Exactly what it sounds like.

Oregon was discovered when someone followed the Oregon Trail right out to the end.

you would do well to turn from Chapter XXXVI to Chapter CXXXIII without further delay, thus saving nearly a hundred chapters without anybody's knowing the difference if you keep quiet. After all, Ahab isn't the only one entitled to be a skipper.

Captain Cook quickly got up on his feet again and strutted to the street ahead of Mr. Popper with many quick turns of his head and pleased comments on the new scene.

When you have come to the edge of all the light you have And step into the darkness of the unknown Believe that one of the two will happen to you Either you'll find something solid to stand on Or you'll be taught how to fly!

He watched his feet, the only things that were keeping him from finding out if there really was a Kingdom of Heaven or not.

The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril.

The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.

Look at your problem in the same place that your belief was and the first thing to do is to look at it and say, I'm tired of this. Over the years, I've discovered that the moment people really change is when they simply decide that enough is enough.

Run all the way to the end of the episode, float back down into the theatre, float into the movie, and then run it backward so everybody walks backward and talks backward, and throw in a little circus music so it's as ridiculous as it could be. Then, clear your mind for ten minutes and then go back and think of what you were afraid of. You will be amazed to discover that your fear has severely diminished if not disappeared entirely.

The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.

If at any point you discover yourself hesitating, or being incongruent, or putting off until tomorrow something you could try now, or just needing some new choices, or being bored, glance over your right shoulder and there will be two madmen there, sitting on stools, insulting you.

Turn frustration into fascination.

If Jacob is now to find himself apart from his family, if he is to find who he can be in this newly uncertain world in which he is alone, he must also now find God as his own God. Not that he thinks of this for himself. It is not Jacob who turns to God but God who turns to Jacob.